Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019 Lenore Tawney: Mirror of the Universe, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2013 Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Lenore Tawney: Wholly Unlooked For, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
2003 Lenore Tawney: Visions in Time, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT
2000 Lenore Tawney: Celebrating Five Decades of Work, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
1998 Lenore Tawney: Shrines Part II, Donahue/Sosinski Art, New York, NY
1997 Lenore Tawney: Vestures of Water, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Lenore Tawney: Meditations, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Lenore Tawney: Meditative Images, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Lenore Tawney: roots, tendrils, threads, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Lenore Tawney, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lenore Tawney: Shrines, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Lenore Tawney: Boundless World, Perimeter Gallery, Chicago, IL
1994-98 Tenri Gallery, New York, NY (1994, 98)
1992 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1990 Lenore Tawney: A Retrospective, American Craft Museum (now Museum of Arts and Design), New York, NY (national tour)

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Tawney at the Art Institute of Chicago, 1990
1988 Helen Drutt Gallery, New York, NY
1985-86 Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY (1985, 86)
1981 Lenore Tawney: Fibers/Collages, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1980 Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
1979 Lenore Tawney, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

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New Jersey State Museum, 1979
1978 Lenore Tawney: A Personal World, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1975 Lenore Tawney, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1970 Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
Peale Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1969-90 Fairweather Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL (1969, 80, 90)
1968 Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1967-74 Willard Gallery, New York, NY (1967, 70, 74)
1967-81 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (1967, 69, 75, 81)

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Benson Gallery, 1967. Photo: Clayton J. Price
1962 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1961 Lenore Tawney, Staten Island Museum, New York, NY
1960 Tapestries by Lenore Tawney, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Centre, London
Subversive, Skilled, Sublime: Fiber Art by Women, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
2023 Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Takaezu & Tawney: An Artist is a Poet, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
2015 Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY (national tour)
Influence and Evolution: Fiber Sculpture…then and now, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2014 Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Fiber: Sculpture 1960-Present, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, MA (national tour)
2013 Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
The Art of Handwriting, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (national tour)
Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

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Installation view, Art & Textiles: Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art from Klimt to the Present, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, 2013-2014, illustrating Lenore Tawney’s Indivisible Point, 1982, Collection Stedlijk Museum, Amsterdam

 

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Installation of works by Lenore Tawney, Textiles: Open Letter, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany, 2013
2012 Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (national and international tour)
To Be a Lady, 1285 Avenue of the Americas Art Gallery, New York, NY
Retro/Prospective: 25+ Years of Art Textiles and Sculpture, browngrotta arts, Wilton, CT
2008 Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
2004 Traditions/Transformations: The Changing World of Fiber Art, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
2003 Generations/Transformations: American Fiber Art, American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
2003 Abstraction: The Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; IVAM (Institut Valencià d’Art Modern), Valencia, Spain
1999 Material Perception – Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People, Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC
1998 North and South Connected: An Abstraction of the Americas, Cecilia de Torres Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Hanging by a Thread, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1996 Fiber and Form: The Woman’s Legacy, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Inspired by Nature, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
1993 Small Works in Fiber: The Collection of Mildred Constantine, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1991 Intimate and Intense: Small Fiber Structures, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1990 Revered Earth, Premieres at Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, (national tour)
1989 Craft Today USA, organized by American Craft Museum, New York. Premieres at Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (international tour)
Fiber Concepts, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Frontiers in Fiber: The Americans, organized by North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND. Premieres at Ishikawa Design Center, Kanazawa, Japan (international tour)
1987 The Eloquent Object, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, OK (national and international tour)
1986 Craft Today: Poetry of the Physical, American Craft Museum, New York, NY (national tour)
Fiber R/Evolution, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (national tour)
1983 11éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1982 Fiber 82, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1981 Lenore Tawney/Toshiko Takaezu, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
The Art Fabric Mainstream, American Federation of Arts. Premieres at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (national tour)
Tracking the Marvelous, Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY
1979 100 Artists, 100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Centennial Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Form and Fiber, Works by Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland

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Weich und Plastich: Soft-Art, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 1979
1978 Tawney/Higa/Sawada, Hunterdon Art Center, Clinton, NJ
1977 Fiberworks, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Lenore Tawney and a Fiber Tradition, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
1975 7éme Biennale Internationale de la Tapisserie, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
1974 Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY
In Praise of Hands, Ontario Science Center, Toronto, Canada
Fiber Forms… past and present, Brookfield Craft Center, Brookfield, CT
1973 Fibre Art, Halls Exhibition Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1970 Neuerwerbungen aus den letzten Jahren, Museum Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland
1969 Objects: USA, The Johnson Collection of Contemporary Crafts. Premieres at National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. (national and international tour)
Wall Hangings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (national tour)
1964 Gewebte Formen, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1963 Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY (international tour)

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Installation of weavings by Lenore Tawney in Woven Forms, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, 1963. Photo: American Craft Council
1962 Adventures in Art, Fine Arts Pavilion, Seattle World’s Fair, Seattle, WA
1958 American Artists and Craftsmen, American Pavilion, Brussels World’s Fair, Brussels, Belgium
1956 Craftsmanship in a Changing World, Museum of Contemporary Crafts (now Museum of Arts and Design) inaugural exhibition, New York, NY